Feeding and Nutrition :: Pellets. Lemme know what you think.

[AnthonyGarcia]

i know most of you guys feed your turts with reptomin pellets, but i could not find any in our place. i do feed them diferent types of pellets.

to people who know more about this, lemme know what you think. i do feed them more veggies than pellets (veggies on M-W-F-Sun), i just wanna know if these things are okay for them.

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Sera Raffy P (fed every tuesday)
The pellet food for terrapins and lizards
before i knew they should eat veggies, i fed my kids with this everyday; the pet store said this one's the staple diet for my turts
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Vitamins/Kilogram:
Vitamin A 30,000IU
Vitamin B1 30mg
Vitamin B2 90mg
Stabilized Vitamin C 550mg
Vitamin D3 1,500IU
Vitamin E 60mg

Quality Analysis:
Moisture 6.5%
Crude Protein 39%
Crude Fat 6%
Crude Fibre 4.1%
Calcium 0.9%
Phosphorous 0.6%



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Sera Raffy Mineral (fed every thursday)
Supplememntal Food
i bought this because it said it provides additional supply of minerals and vitamins, and they are rich in calcium.
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Vitamins/Pound:
Vitamin A 13,600IU
Vitamin B1 14mg
Vitamin B2 41mg
Stabilized Vitamin C 250mg
Vitamin D3 680IU
Vitamin E 27IU

Quality Analysis:
Moisture 6.3%
Crude Protein 29.1%
Crude Fat 3.9%
Crude Fibre 5.3%
Crude Ash 5.9%
Calcium Min/Max 2.1%/2.6%
Phosphorous 0.7%




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Sera Raffy Vital (fed every saturday)
Herbal Food For Turtles
bought this because i think this is the closest thing to veggies. it includes paprika and parsley, is it ok?
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Vitamins/Kilogram:
Vitamin A 30,000IU
Vitamin B1 30mg
Vitamin B2 90mg
Stabilized Vitamin C 550mg
Vitamin D3 1,500IU
Vitamin E 60mg

Quality Analysis:
Moisture 6.0%
Crude Protein 18.0%
Crude Fat 5.0%
Crude Fibre 58.0%
Crude Ash 18%
Calcium 1.7%
Phosphorous 0.4%




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Sera Raffy I (fed once or twice a month on a sunday, alternate with cuttlebone or live guppies)
Assorted gammarus, anchovies, and ant eggs for feeding terrapins & lizards
i bought this instead of those chinese dried shrimps just because sera is reliable brand.
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Quality Analysis:
Moisture 10.8%
Crude Protein 52.7%
Crude Fat 5.4%
Crude Fibre 7.80%
Crude Ash 22.6%



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lemme know if these things are okay. thanks.

[marisa]

As part of the diet, the products don't look that bad. You would still want to provide additional calcium and, of course, variety with other foods.

I have no idea about paprika or what the parsley content is the Raffy Mineral. Parsley, however, is high in oxalic acid, which can interfere with calcium absorption if there's too much of it in the diet.

[AnthonyGarcia]

i do feed them cuttlebone. aren't they enough? they just had their first tuna last sunday... it was gone in 3 minutes.

thanks for the additional info on the oxalic acid. i'll keep that in mind.

[SpotsMama]

the cuttlebone is very good. Marisa just wants you to be sure not to let your turtles have too much food containing oxalic acid, which would bind up the calcium they eat. so it would make a difference how much parsley is in the Raffy Vital pellets. If the pellets are mostly parsley or are a large percentage parsley, then you should probably skip them. If the pellets contain just a small percentage of parsley though, then they are fine.

[AnthonyGarcia]

i see. thanks for the additional info, spots mama. raffy vital actually includes a lot of veggies. i'll try cutting back on the raffy vital pellets from now on.

[marisa]

What I meant was (I think I can speak for myself ), if the parsley content is high (if it's an ingredient that's listed toward the front of the list of ingredients, or in the first 3 or 4), it would be better to not give it on a regular basis. If it's listed toward the end of the list of ingredients, then there's most likely no problem with it. Just keep the diet varied.

[AnthonyGarcia]

so it works that way huh? the last two ingredients are parsley and paprika.

[Tenodera]

I don't have anything helpful to add, but I gotta say those are awesome photos....

Kevin

[AnthonyGarcia]

I don't have anything helpful to add, but I gotta say those are awesome photos....

Kevin

thannks kev. macro photography is my specialty. ^_^